Welcome to Swarm Cluster Documentation
The swarm hardware cluster consists of:
- 1 head node with 24 cores (2 processors, 12 cores each - 48 cores with hyperthreading) Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz, 128GB RAM and 200GB local SSD disk.
- 50 compute nodes with 28 cores (2 processors, 14 cores each - 56 cores with hyper threading) Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz, 128GB RAM and 200GB local SSD disk.
- 50 compute nodes with 28 cores (2 processors, 18 cores each - 72 cores with hyper threading) Xeon Gold 6240 CPU @ 2.60GHz, 192GB RAM and 240GB local SSD disk.
- 5 compute nodes with 56 cores (2 processors, 14 cores each - 56 cores with hyper threading) Xeon E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz, 264GB RAM and 30TB local disk. (Note: These are reserved for a class half of the year)
- 2 data server nodes
- 2 10GB network switches Dell S4048-ON
The software for the swarm cluster in 2021 consists of:
- MAAS (Metal as a service - OS installation)
- Ubuntu 20.04 (OS)
- ZFS filesystem shared over NFS
- Slurm (job scheduling and resource management)
Before usage please read the following Documentation.